De top 100 van de BBC, The Big Read. Niet in volgorde. In het vet de boeken die ik gelezen heb.
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer,
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell —huh? wat staat dit hier te doen?
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- Catch 22, Joseph Heller –toch zeker een favoriet voor de eindoverwinning
- The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel–surely you must be joking?
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett–de latere boeken zijn beter
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman–alleen Good Omens? en geen andere boeken van Gaiman?
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett–inderdaad zeer goed
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien–The Hobbit? En LOTR niet?? Tch!
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Een aantal Usual Suspects staan d’er niet op: Madame Bovary, Ulysses, Oorlog & Vrede, … Ho hum.